Race-Conscious Affirmative Action - What’s Next

To provide a sense of likely impact of models that expand the use of examined the impact that each model would have to consider race as one of many factors in the the possibilities, we examined six different race-conscious admissions practices nationwide on both the racial/ethnic and the socioeconomic admissions process. [...] practices of Harvard University and the In fact, approximately six in 10 respondents in the lowest 20 percent (bottom quintile) of Proponents of race-conscious college admissions University of North Carolina.7 to the Post–Schar School poll indicated that the SES distribution make up 8 percent of the argue that this form of affirmative action helps students from low-income families “have an incomin. [...] Thus, students from families in class backgrounds experience the persistent in October 2022 found that the proportion of sometimes to an even greater degree than the bottom 20 percent of the SES distribution are effects of centuries of racial discrimination.4 respondents opposed to the consideration of students from racial and ethnic minority groups. [...] over the same period.26 At the same time, the The demographics of the college-age population collective representation of Black/African Percentage of enrollments are essential when evaluating the impact of bans American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/ on race-conscious admissions practices—the Alaska Native students at selective colleges has 100% primary focus of this report—as opposed to r. [...] We then compared the resulting available at the 193 colleges in the top two tiers racial/ethnic and class composition of students of selectivity (identified using the 2014 NCES– expected to attend selective colleges to that of Barron’s college admissions competitiveness the existing group of selective college enrollees selectivity rankings).46 When examining the and to that of the high school grad.